Tag Archives: Jeff Beck
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REVIEW: Ian Hunter defies trends, leans on famous friends to make another classic rocker
Ian Hunter, “Defiance Part 1.” Ian Hunter has been defiant for many years now, steadfastly resisting most trends in modern rock and pop music to make albums that may well have been big sellers in the 1970s and 1980s, and would be now if the world was a fair…
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REWIND: Five songs you didn’t know Jeff Beck worked on
Jeff Beck performs at Shepher’s Bush Empire in London. Photo by Nicky J. Sims/Redferns. As you no doubt already know, legendary guitarist Jeff Beck died. There have been countless remembrances of his life and music, including in this publication, so I don’t want to reiterate all that. Instead, I’d…
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Obituary: Guitar great Jeff Beck dead at 78 after brief illness
Jeff Beck performs in Cologne, Germany on Oct. 27, 2016. Photo: HENNING KAISER/dpa | usage worldwide. Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck, a guitar icon who influenced countless others, has passed away after brief illness on Jan. 10, his family announced on Wednesday. He was 78. According to…
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REWIND: You may not know the Yardbirds, but you know their guitarists
The Yardbirds in 1966. Left to right: Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf. Courtesy. Way, way back in the early ’00s, when I was at Diablo Valley College (that’s in the East Bay), I took a lot of random and unnecessary classes to keep…
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Nashville’s Tyler Bryant on being a ‘virtuoso’ and jamming with his heroes
Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown. COURTESY. Before he was 22, guitar prodigy Tyler Bryant shared the stage with Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. But it was a 63-year-old bluesman from Honey Grove, Texas, who inspired the musician when he was just a boy. Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown 9…
